The chief economists of the National Association of Realtors® ( NAR ) on Thursday predicted that sales of existing homes will probably remain flat through late spring and then begin a gradual recovery during the second half of 2008. Lawrence Yun made the forecast based on the release of NAR's Pending...
Right on the heels of the National Association of Realtors rather glum report on the sale of existing houses during the fourth quarter of 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released their monthly joint report on housing starts and housing permits for...
The usual spate of monthly reports on new home sales, existing home sales, housing starts, and builder confidence were all released recently. Taken together they do little to clarify the state of the housing market. First out was the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index...